US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on May 27 for "Circular accelerator and particle therapy system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,404, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Circular accelerator and particle therapy system" was invented by Futaro Ebina (Tokyo) and Takuya Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a circular accelerator that accelerates a beam of charged particles circulating in a magnetic field such that a closed orbit for each energy of the beam is eccentric. The circular accelerator includes a beam extraction port for extracting beams of different energies from the closed orbit, a first bending magnet and a second bending magnet that bend the beam extracted from the beam extraction port, and a ...